344 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus CAPRIMULGUS Linneus, 1758. 
Wings long and pointed, fe shorter than second; rictal 
bristles conspicuous, no ear-tufts’on sides of head; males generally dis- 
tinguished by having large white spots on wings and tail. 
Species. 
MALES. 
a’, White spot on first primary smaller and not reaching the shaft. 
b1. White spot on outer rectrix subterminal..................-.....2...202--- jotaka (p. 349) 
b*. White spot on outer rectrix terminal. 
ce’, Spot on outer rectrix on inner web only; spot on second primary not reach- 
yea AY 0 Se cdeer eer ety ner Ree ee enor a Meer aceereoc ese manillensis (p. 346) 
c?, Spot on outer rectrix involving both webs; spot on second primary reaching 
BSINEA EG, OT ISO GA WY C10 8 ee acces cee Fee cee eee saree macrurus (p. 348) 
a*, White spot on first primary larger and reaching the ( griseatus (p. 344) 
1 1h See POL RREON Uo Scueneenrr PoP Se ee Ey estar eek ceeeeniey ama ie™ ee { mindanensis (p. 346) 
FEMALES. 
a. A large terminal white spot on tail. 
bt. Larger, length about 290 mm.; a larger terminal white spot across both webs 
of outer rectrix; spot on first primary white and larger, on second primary 
extemmmerbostne Sharia e i ss ee ee Be ee ee macrurus (p. 348) 
b*. Smaller, length about 250 mm.; a smaller terminal white spot across inner 
web of outer rectrix; spot on first primary buff and smaller; on second 
primary not extending to the shaft...............-....-...... manillensis (p. 346) 
a*, No terminal white spot on tail which is barred and mottled. 
b'. Smaller; wing less than 180 mm.; spots on primaries ( griseatus (p. 344) 
much larger, whitish and unspeckled........................ | mindanensis (p. 346) 
b*, Larger; wing more than 190 mm.; spots on primaries much smaller, buffy 
and ‘speckled! with= brow essere eee eee eee jotaka (p. 349) 
306. CAPRIMULGUS GRISEATUS Walden. 
PHILIPPINE NIGHTJAR. 
Caprimulgus griseatus WALDEN, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, pt. 2, 160; 
TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 691; Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1892), 16, 550; pl. 11; Granr and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 
245 pl. 6, fig. 7 (egg); CLARKE, Ibis (1900), 353; SHarpre, Hand-List 
(1900), 2, 86; OaTES and REID, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 67; Me- 
GREGOR and WoRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 57; WorcrEstTrER, Phil. Jour. 
Sei. (1907), 2, sec. A, 271; pls: 1 & 2: 
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Whitehead, 
McGregor); Mindanao (Goodfellow); Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Negros 
(Keay) ; Sibuyan (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor). 
Adult male-——Upper parts finely vermiculated with blackish brown, 
pale buff, and gray, more heavily marked with blackish brown on top 
of head and on scapulars, some of the latter with wide edges of fulvous 
or buff on outer web; an obsolete collar of buff on hind neck; lower 
parts finely marked with blackish brown, buff, and whitish buff; a large 
